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Liquid-phase selective oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes using molecular oxygen as an oxidant is one of the most important transformations in organic synthesis and green chemistry. In this work, nitrogen-containing ordered mesoporous materials (NOMCs) were prepared and utilized as supports to load vanadia. The physical and chemical properties of the synthesized VxOy/NOMC materials were characterized by N2 adsorption–desorption, XRD, TEM, Raman, and XPS. The characterization results exhibited that NOMC could well disperse vanadia species and there was a steady interaction between V and N of NOMC. In selective oxidation of benzyl alcohol using oxygen as an oxidant, the synthesized VxOy/NOMC materials showed good and stable catalytic performance, affording a maximum yield of benzaldehyde up to 80% at 95 °C.
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This work was supported by PetroChina Innovation Foundation (2018D-5007-0508), National Natural Science Foundation of China (21878027), Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (18KJA150001 and 19KJA430003), Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (SJCX20_0951), and Advanced Catalysis and Green Manufacturing Collaborative Innovation Center (ACGM2020-08). J. Xu also thanks Jun-**g Ding of the Shiyanjia Lab (www.shiyanjia.com) for his help in XPS characterization. J. Xu also thanks Jun-**g Ding of the Shiyanjia Lab (www.shiyanjia.com) for his help in XPS characterization.
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Yi, XT., Wang, TL., Wen, LZ. et al. Selective Oxidation of Benzyl Alcohol with Oxygen Catalyzed by Vanadia Supported on Nitrogen-Containing Ordered Mesoporous Carbon Materials. Catal Lett 152, 962–971 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-021-03699-1
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